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A Guide to Urban Development [Guia de Gestão Urbana]

May 10, 2017 By Jeff Fong

Caos Planejado, in conjunction with Editora BEI/ArqFuturo, recently published A Guide to Urban Development (Guia de Gestão Urbana) by Anthony Ling. The book offers best practices for urban design and although it was written for a Brazilian audience, many of its recommendations have universal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Development, Economics, housing, infrastructure, planning, Policy, privatization, Transportation, Uncategorized, zoning Tagged With: Brazil, infrastructure, mobility, policy, zoning

Episode 04: Anthony Ling on Brazilian Cities and the Future of Transportation

October 12, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Sao Paulo

My guest this week is Anthony Ling. Anthony is founder and editor of Caos Planejado, a Brazilian website on cities and urban planning. He also founded Bora, a transportation technology startup and is currently an MBA candidate at Stanford University. He graduated Architecture and Urban Planning at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Logistics & Transportation, market urbanism podcast, planning, Transportation, World Tagged With: anthony ling, brasilia, Brazil, caos planejado, driverless cars, favela, Sao Paulo, smart city, transit

What favelas can teach us about America

April 11, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Anthony Ling, an excellent Brazilian blogger who also happens to be an avowed market urbanism, gives us an interesting look at the politics and economics of low-income housing in Brazil:In Brazil there is a vast regulation defining what are the minimum requirements to have a building approved by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: affordable housing, Brazil, inclusionary zoning

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